Two Poems
by Joshua Garcia
Daddy Poem
snakeskin
leather
taxidermy bird
feather
brass urn
horny goat weed
corn tortillas
dried skins
& sweat
bandanas
three leaf clovers
boots
cut grass & heat
sunscreen
makeup
accoutrements of vanity
a dog’s skull
lasers
flint
ultraviolet light
a photograph
tucked in
a stack of your books
I close
the tabs on my phone
& answer
yes I am with you
there was no
mystery then
none still
Sunflower Poem
Joshua Garcia's debut collection, Pentimento, is forthcoming with Black Lawrence Press (March 2024). His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Ecotone, The Georgia Review, Passages North, Ploughshares, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA from the College of Charleston and has received a Stadler Fellowship from Bucknell University and an Emerge—Surface—Be Fellowship from The Poetry Project. He lives and writes in Brooklyn, New York.